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Lophoptera gadirthoides sp. n.
20-21mm. This species differs from the previous three in the medium-pale brown ground colour to the forewing; there is a distinctive, dark brown
bottle-shaped mark, neck directed basad, enclosing the reniform; the reniform is
pale brown with a slender black lunule centrally; the bottle mark has a slightly
less dark shade distad which continues to the margin; the posterior element of
the apical mark (no paler than the ground) resembles that of polygrapha in
not being bounded basad; the postmedial zig-zags in a pronounced manner over its
posterior third, ending in two thin dark lines running basad parallel to the
dorsum. The male genitalia are somewhat as in chalybea, having a slight
subapical step to the valve costa; the basal lobe is much more rounded and is
completely fused to the valve at its base.
Holotype . BRUNEI: 30-60m,
Labi,
lowland forest and secondary veg., 12.1.1980 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen) BM
noctuid slide 11376.
Paratypes. 1 BRUNEI: 60m, Ulu
Belait, lowland forest, 21.2.1981 (Allen); 1
SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park (Holloway) Site 8, Mulu Camp 1, 150m,
385470, mixed dipt. for.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. All specimens were taken in areas of lowland
rainforest.
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